Add me to the list: dog memes got me through 2016.
I don't do twitter but I am on facebook, and can recommend Cool Doggo Memes, Doggo, Heckin Pictures of DANG Doggos, and Bork Bork You Are Doing Me A Frighten as heckin decent pages to follow.posted by phunniemee at 9:43 AM on January 5, 2017 [11 favorites]

@dog_rates is the best. I wonder how mad people get if their dog is only rated a 10 or 11.posted by bondcliff at 9:51 AM on January 5, 2017 [1 favorite]

Such bullshit. Troll gets called out for being a troll and responds with "who, moi??" (Bront, I mean)posted by danny the boy at 9:52 AM on January 5, 2017

also there is an animalrates tumblr that is not the same person as the twitter guy, the tumbls person is a content thief, i dislike them and wish them illposted by poffin boffin at 9:57 AM on January 5, 2017

I have corresponded with the dog_rates gentleman! I wanted to get my dad a t-shirt reading "Any dog can be a guide dog if you don't care where you're going" and he wrote back to ask "are you a wizard?" because the dog_rates shop was opening the next day and they sold that shirt and I gave it to my dad for his birthday and he wears it all the time!

I'm desperate for the dog_rates shop to start selling onesies but it doesn't seem like they are planning to do so which is a damn h*cking shame. #theyregoodbabiesBrentposted by Mrs. Pterodactyl at 10:25 AM on January 5, 2017 [39 favorites]

My fave things about @dog_rates is actually the occasional tweet-war with which every goat Twitter account it is.posted by maryr at 10:26 AM on January 5, 2017 [5 favorites]

This guy also got into a scrap over Christmas with Heather Armstrong aka Dooce for the unauthorized use of a photo of her late dog Chuck as his avatar.posted by ThatCanadianGirl at 10:27 AM on January 5, 2017

My fave things about @dog_rates is actually the occasional tweet-war with which every goat Twitter account it is.

My husband is, appallingly, pro-goat (puppers4lyfe) and I absolutely will not abide them so whenever I sing "Hush Little Baby" to the kraken I sing most of the verses with "Mommy's going to buy you a..." but for the goat verse I change it to "Daddy's going to buy you a billy goat" so she grows up knowing that her father is just the worst.posted by Mrs. Pterodactyl at 10:30 AM on January 5, 2017 [14 favorites]

It's a good meme, Brink, but my current love is Twitter's #CatsJudgingKellyanneposted by billiebee at 10:30 AM on January 5, 2017 [1 favorite]

I can also highly recommend /r/woof_irl, which seems to be largely dogs in some form of awkward existential crisis...or humans in some form of awkward, existential crisis imposing their issues on pictures of dogs.

Big probs to dog memes for adding minced oaths back into my vocabulary. I'd been going down a dark path for a while, but use of the word "heckin'" has mellowed my game considerably.posted by redsparkler at 10:49 AM on January 5, 2017 [8 favorites]

I love this meme and I especially love that it's "they're good dogs" and not "they're all good dogs" for reasons I can't put my finger on. Maybe because it's not a blanket statement about all dogs are good (which is arguably true but still leaves room for argument) (especially when they've been in your trash can while you were at work AGAIN), and more a calm, straightforward assertion that dammit, Brant, what more do you want, these dogs are good.

I'd been going down a dark path for a while, but use of the word "heckin'" has mellowed my game considerably.

See, whereas I'm fine with 'pupper' and 'doggo', I refuse to acknowledge the legitimacy of 'heckin' and will not stand for its becoming a part of everyday vernacular.posted by Atom Eyes at 11:17 AM on January 5, 2017

in norway they say pupper and i think that's beautifulposted by phunniemee at 11:21 AM on January 5, 2017

but for the goat verse I change it to "Daddy's going to buy you a billy goat" so she grows up knowing that her father is just the worst.

AND YET you steadfastly tell me I can't buy a goat, even if my increasingly strained hypotheticals where we don't live in an apartment and the future survival of the goat species is dependent on our actions. How can you say no? LOOK AT HIM.posted by Bulgaroktonos at 11:28 AM on January 5, 2017 [13 favorites]

I used the stock photo the Twitter account uses as an avatar several times in the videos I made when I was working for John Tesh. It's super cute, and it looks like its fur is incredibly soft (the dog, not John Tesh). 14/10.posted by under_petticoat_rule at 12:17 PM on January 5, 2017

(Warning: Toy horse with surprisingly detailed genitalia.)posted by maxsparber at 12:45 PM on January 5, 2017

can I just say that bork is my favorite onomatopoeia ? It always puts me in a fit of giggles. Everyone knows that neighborhood dog that goes BORK BORK BORK!posted by INFJ at 12:48 PM on January 5, 2017 [7 favorites]

I really and truly love @dog_rates. This article, on the other hand ...

"[A white man] said he has had to block only a couple of people after becoming an anti-dog meme villain, both times because people were using “the f word” at him. Otherwise, he has gained about 1,000 Twitter followers [...]"

Retail nightmares podcast ( with the fab Alicia Tobin from Stop podcasting yoursel fame) introduced me to "puppo". Anything that gives you the feeling of petting dogs is a puppo. Every week they discuss it and usually include some damn cute puppos that are actually puppos. Plus Alicia just got a cute puppos Hank that I want to devour.

( The podcast covers all the horrors that happen when you've got a career in retail and is damn funny too)posted by kanata at 11:46 PM on January 5, 2017 [1 favorite]

I am having A Week (why, we are being moved by the army and they have lost track of our worldly goods, which are somewhere on the other side of the country on flooded train tracks, you say?!) and by god, this is exactly what I needed.

Please list me in your files as officially endorsing all of the following:
Pupper, doggo, heckin, SNEK, the birdsrightsactivist Twitter which has not been mentioned here but which nonetheless fits into this category, the fact of the dogs being good and the rating system used by dog_rates.posted by pseudonymph at 5:26 PM on January 6, 2017 [3 favorites]

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